Re: clarify "rewritten" in pg_checksums docs

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-02T08:26:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 03:44:06PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Well, I was thinking less technically accurate and more descriptive for end
> users, hiding the implementation details.  "Rewrite" sounds to me more like
> changing data rather than amending pages with a checksum keeping data intact.
> Either way, adding "in-place" is an improvement IMO.

Using rewritten still sounds more adapted to me, as we still write the
thing with chunks of size BLCKSZ.  No objections with the addition of
"in-place" for that sentence.  Any extra opinions?
--
Michael

Commits

  1. doc: Tweak sentence for pg_checksums when enabling checksums